Dara Sakolsky, MD, PhD
- Medical Director
Dr. Sakolsky is a board-certified adult and child/adolescent psychiatrist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She obtained her MD and PhD in Pharmacology from Temple University. She has extensive clinical experience treating youth with mood and anxiety disorders.
She is currently the Associate Medical Director at Services for Teens at Risk (STAR) clinic and sees patients as a psychiatrist at STAR, the Child and Adolescent Bipolar Spectrum Services (CABS), Robert Morris University Counseling Center, and Center for Advanced Psychotherapy. Dr. Sakolsky serves as a co-investigator on several National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) studies examining the diagnosis and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders in children, adolescents, and young adults. She is also the Pittsburgh site principal investigator on a NIMH grant, which examines the long-term outcomes of anxious youth who have received treatment with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), medication or their combination (CBT + medication).